Our first day in Esperance, and we just lounged around for several hours in the morning, making it feel like a Sunday morn. We finally decided that it was best to make a move and have a look around the town and it’s environs.
The overcast day doesn’t make it very eventful, but even the beauty of the Southern Ocean and Twilight Bay couldn’t be disguised by the shadows of the clouds.
As we headed out to the lookout to see the islands in the bay, everybody fell in love with Esperance yesterday. Tall Norfolk pine trees lined the streets of the town. Towering over the small one storey structures.
We took the Tourist Loop out to the bays and beaches and the sun peaked through the clouds giving us more of an idea of how idyllic this place is. 
And even though there are wonderful beaches and bays, we hear tales of massive sharks off the coast of Western Australia, who are aggressively attacking boats. These surfers though, don’t seem to worry about such stuff. We watched them catch the rip tide out to the waves, and then surf back in to shore. It was amazing to watch them catching those rip tides.
The sun peaked out just enough to show the true colours of the granite and the colour of the water.
Out to Observatory Point, you can see islands throughout the bays.
We watched the sun set over Pink Lake. It’s a salt water lake that has a pink hue to it due to the algae growing in it.
And we finished off our day at the local pub for a Birthday celebration meal for Col. And today….well, we’re off to climb mountains….well, namely ONE in particular. Frenchman’s Peak. We could see it from the lookout on this side of the bay. Now,… we’re heading to OTHER side of the bay.
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